Madame Stuart og Martin Nürenbachs Konster og Exercicier

"The acts were then specified. First, the two were to demonstrate different kinds of positions and balancing. Then they were to perform equilibrist feats. Nürenbach was to voltigerer his body into different shapes and forms with great deftness and deliberation for the pleasure of the audience; Madame Stuart was to balance a peacock feather both horizontally and vertically, lose it, catch it again, and then play an enjoyable minuet, probably on a lute, which was one of her instruments. Next, the poster stated that Nürenbach would perform an equilibrist masterpiece with a ladder (known from earlier advertisements). Finally, a play called the Jealous Harlequin would be performed, whereby Harlequin and the ‘Liebhabers’ (spectators) would be most thoroughly entertained." (Fiskvik, 2016)

KILDER:

Fiskvik, Anne Margrete: Where higbrow taste met itinerant dance in eighteenthcentury Scandinavia: The dance entrepreneur Martin Nürenbach, i: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 13-2016

Huithfeldt-Kaas, Henrik Jørgen: Christiania Theaterhistorie, Gyldendal, Christiania 1876